jgresula

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by jgresula 16y ago
Here is a great practical intro to generators: Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers - http://www.dabeaz.com/generators-uk/GeneratorsUK.pdf
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by jgresula 16y ago
My own startup: Pdfcrowd http://pdfcrowd.com It lets you convert HTML to PDF online - either directly in your browser or in your apps using the API.
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by jgresula 16y ago
http://www.swig.org/ automatically binds existing C++ software to other programming languages. I use it a lot to call C++ from Python and Java and I must say it is really amazing piece of software. And there is also Boost.Python.
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by jgresula 16y ago
A shameless plug for my project, but hopefully you might find it useful. I run http://pdfcrowd.com which is an online service providing html to pdf API. It lets you convert a web page to pdf quite easily - have look at examples at http:/
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by jgresula 16y ago
Try sites with smaller audiences to get at least some coverage. If your app is good big blogs might notice and write about it. My personal experience: I submitted my app to MoMB - just a short email. The next day it appeared on Lifehacker (
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by jgresula 17y ago
There is no doubt that many developers will use wkhtmltopdf. I think that the Pdfcrowd's selling points could be 1) wide availability - only HTTP is needed so it can be used theoretically on any platform 2) no need to install any 3rd party
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by jgresula 17y ago
I did not know about this project at the time I started with pdfcrowd. But anyway, I just took my existing pdf library and integrated it with WebKit which was not that hard as one could think.
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by jgresula 17y ago
That's a known problem on my todo list. The colors are dulled only in Acrobat but other PDF readers render the colors correctly. Please, could you post the link to that page if possible? Thanks.
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by jgresula 17y ago
I don't know the exact status of how WebKit handles these properties. I know that at least "page-break-after: always" works since that is what I use when the user clicks the 'Insert Page Break' button in the editor ( http://pdfcrowd.com/edi
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by jgresula 17y ago
Yes, I have seen it but have not tried it yet.
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by jgresula 17y ago
Thanks for the report. I will look into it as there should be no default HTML in the editor.
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by jgresula 17y ago
My current plan is to charge for conversion tokens but I'm not decided how much yet.
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by jgresula 17y ago
No special reason - I just don't know PHP. But it is on the todo list.
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by jgresula 17y ago
Sorry, don't know why. Your site does not validate but it could be problem on my side as well.
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by jgresula 17y ago
That's a non-trivial task. There are no such objects like tables, styles, lists or paragraphs in PDF so you would need to reconstruct this kind of information. Also, text and vector graphics is positioned absolutely. Tagged PDFs contains so
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Ask HN: please review my app - html to pdf API(pdfcrowd.com)
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Ask HN: Please review my project: HTML to PDF online API
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by jgresula 17y ago
1) Since November 2009, launched this March. 2) Never applied. 3) No, self-funded. 4) http://pdfcrowd.com - html to pdf online API
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by jgresula 17y ago
Have a look at http://pdfcrowd.com - it is a service providing an html to pdf online API and it has bindings for python. It is in private beta now, so if you are interested please just contact me and I will send you an invitation key.